Lindsay John Bell, Ph.D.
@lindsayjbell.bsky.social
Historian • Professor at De Anza College • SABR Member • Baseball Aficionado • Research explores the intersection of sports, militarism, & gender • Opinions my own • He/Him
For this Indigenous Peoples Day, your astonishing artifact is the earliest known Indigenous depiction of a European — a wood carving from Nunavut dated to 1350. 🧪🏺
Inuit figurine: A 700-year-old Indigenous carving of a European made a century before Columbus
This Inuit carving was made a century before Columbus set foot in the Americas and likely depicts a Norseman.
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Kind of obsessed with this spooky season scene my 12-year-old painted today.
BREAKING: At least six soldiers are planning to file for preliminary religious exemptions to avoid participating in the firing squad execution of Nidal Mikal Hasan, a nonprofit leader told The Washington Sun. www.washingtonsun.com/defense/sold...
Soldiers Are Already Looking for a Way Out of Hegseth’s Livestreamed Firing Squad
At least six soldiers are planning to file for preliminary religious exemptions, a nonprofit leader told The Sun. More are expected to follow.
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Payton Tolle has responded to Nick Offerman claiming him as his son. This is very important to me.
Molly Knight@mollyknight.bsky.social · 4d agoThank you Boston.com! This is very important to me! www.boston.com/sports/bosto...
how about a sector by sector analysis of 40 years of wage theft, particularly in fields related to public service, education, and care work?
A College-by-College Guide to Which Majors Pay Off — or Don’t
College is one of the biggest investments you’ll ever make. We built a tool to compare the earnings of all available majors in a federal data set at nearly every school.
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Keep your eyes peeled for these positions being filled by those who are full send on pumping AI into collections management, exhibition curation, and marketing.
kelsey ables@kelseyables.bsky.social · 6d agoNew: The White House is conditioning $190 million for the Smithsonian on compliance with its executive order "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" through legally-binding footnotes in recent OMB apportionments. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
Postseason baseball is so good when it's not your team's season on the line.
I feel like this needs to be emphasized more. AI is not sentient. It is a program reliant on LLMs to mimic “thinking,” and whenever an AI program performs a function the company wants to disavow for PR reasons, it’s suddenly “rogue.”
Joshua Foust 🪖🎮@joshuafoust.com · 2w ago4a. This isn’t rogue. It is a model following the instructions given to it. The genie isn’t to blame for fulfilling a wish in a way you don’t specify.
Mike Peters on the Gun Lobby, February 1981. This was just two months after John Lennon was murdered.
"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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Sharing a new WPBL reading list created on WorldCat.org. WorldCat is a great resource for finding specific books in libraries near you. View the entire list here: search.worldcat.org/lists/357c553d-58c7-4e0e-85b6-73e9dc2894a8 #SearchWorldCat #ReadBaseball #WPBL
I’ve seen reports estimating that the Iran War is costing us $1 billion a day. Over ten years that’s $3.6 trillion. So how about we trade free college for a stupid war?
We're a society plagued by bad faith and widespread indulgence of it. Say "free speech" while unsubtly meaning "I say whatever I want, you have to listen, and you can't say anything I don't like back." Voila, a Free Speech Crisis! Here, anti-civility groups say "civility." And the money flows in.
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2w agosome descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources
Reminder that I have a spreadsheet of OER primary source excerpts paired with short articles for use in freshman U.S. history surveys available for free on my website. rmgunter.com/posts/5827-p... 🗃️
Rachel Michelle Gunter, Ph.D. - Pairing Primary and Secondary Sources
When choosing readings for assigned readings or class activities, I try to pair short excerpts of primary sources with secondary sources. There are 2 main ve...
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Eric Columbus@ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 2w agoIn all seriousness I wish every professor on here would post their reading lists each semester
Thinking about ditching court this week to watch #MLB playoffs? Hope you get a judge like Oklahoma District Judge R.J. Charlton who announced he was postponing his docket so as not to interfere with the 1929 Philadelphia A’s v Chicago Cubs #WorldSeries #BaseballandtheLaw 14
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2w agoTrump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1
I take a similar approach with my students, and it’s just an unfortunate reminder that higher ed has been reduced to noting more than job training and not an opportunity to become a well-rounded and informed individual whose personality can be more than their job.
Erin Grievances@erinbartram.bsky.social · 2w agoOne reason to learn about things outside your major is so that you have something to talk about with people at parties and on dates. No amount of money will make up for you being a crushing bore. History majors learn this early but I guess it takes other people longer.
This is a revelation to me. Are most history depts not already "service depts"? I assumed they were. In any given year I might teach 500 students, most of them in the intro surveys, and maybe 25 of those 500 are history majors. But it's important to note how admins set these classes up to fail.
Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 2w ago"Unlike large math or physics courses, humanities courses are often best delivered as discussion seminars, which place a natural cap on their size . . . if done well, there will in fact be a need to hire more faculty to lead small-group seminar discussions." www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
I keep coming back to this clip against the background of AI companies infesting higher education. And I feel like I need to show this in class to students, for them to understand why not to trust these bastards
Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 7mo agoUpside down, by the ankles, and then treat him like a piñata.
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Join us this weekend at Midway Village Museum's World War II Days. Rockford Peaches bat girl, Clara Hellemann, will be meeting fans (Saturday only in the red barn). Come see us and check out the Midwest's largest WWII commemorative event! #MidwayVillage #WWIIDays #RockfordPeaches
But he didn't restore Confederate names to military bases. He found individuals who happen to have the same last names as these Confederate generals. Distinctions matter. Even the neo-Confederate crowd saw right through this move. #CivilWarMemory
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoHannity's list of "TRUMP'S TOP ACCOMPLISHMENTS" includes restoring Confederate names to military bases and releasing dietary guidelines
This is so fucking dark. Kalshi filed with the CFTC today asking for permission to let traders bet on margin, which means placing prediction market bets with borrowed money.
Some of the latest images from Mars 📷 All taken by Perseverance rover last week
